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Posted: **Wed Aug 14, 2002 9:00 pm**

Is this a Hardware or Software Modem?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... URL=0&rd=1

Is this a Hardware or Software Modem?

If you can't see the page, please look in ebay.com, search, search by item number, item number 2043894203

The reason I'm asking is that I won the auction assuming by the look of it that it was a hardware modem. I then received an "L" shaped modem, that was clearly a software modem. I contacted the seller and she told me she had quite a few of these and scanned another one. That one looked just like the photo in the auction. She agreed to swap. Will I be receiving a hardware modem this time

Posted: **Wed Aug 14, 2002 10:28 pm**

Hard to say since there's no model number but from the photo of the boardI'd say it is a hardware modem. Software modems tend to have fewer big chips.

Posted: **Sat Aug 17, 2002 4:38 pm**

Email to dealer and asking.

Posted: **Sat Aug 17, 2002 5:00 pm**

Its a windmodem... USR only has one PCI hardware modem and that isn't it... Your best bet for a hardware modem would to get one of the Old USR Sportsters ISA cards... Or run an external modem.

Posted: **Tue Aug 20, 2002 12:17 am**

I had two of the USR WIn MOdems. Both came in an exact Identical boxes from wallmart. Same price and all!
Thought I was getting two of the same modem till I opened the boxes. One was L shaped, the other a full card. Not sure what other differences there were besides using different drivers, but it ticked me off!

You buy two of something you expect two of the same thing!

canton_kid